Famous quotes containing the words fly, ash and/or content:
“The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!”
—Aesop (6th century B.C.)
“For its home, dearie, homeits home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and well away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
Theyre all growing green in the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (18491903)
“I am content to live it all again,
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind mans ditch.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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